Ctrl-Alt-Speech: This One Weird Trick To Save The Open Internet
Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw.
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In this week’s round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike is joined by guest host Alex Feerst, former General Counsel and head of trust & safety at Medium, and co-founder of the Digital Trust & Safety Partnership. Together they cover:
- Was There A Trojan Horse Hidden In Section 230 All Along That Could Enable Adversarial Interoperability? (Techdirt)
- EU Commission opens formal proceedings against Facebook and Instagram under the Digital Services Act (European Commission)
- OnlyFans Investigated over its duties to protect under-18s from restricted materials (Ofcom)
- Canadian banks need to do more to stop abusive e-transfers, survivors say (CBC)
- TikTok And Meta Aren’t Labeling State Propaganda About The War In Gaza (Forbes)
- How we fought bad apps and bad actors in 2023 (Google security blog)
- Meta’s oversight body prepares to lay off workers (Washington Post)
This episode is brought to you with financial support from the Future of Online Trust & Safety Fund.